Graduate program contacts
Contact us for any questions you may have about the programs we offer in the Department of Sociology.
Current graduate students
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Faculty of Graduate Studies
Everything you need to know as a graduate student at the University of Calgary
Financial
Graduate fees and funding
Understand your general fees and learn about funding available.
Awards and scholarships
Find the awards and scholarships that apply to you and learn how and when to apply.
Graduation requirements
Convocation
Congratulations! You are approaching the final step of your study. Thesis-based and course-based students will need to complete different tasks in order to graduate. Ensure you have completed all the requirements for your degree.
Where do I get information about convocation?
Visit the Convocation office for more information.
Graduate Student News and Publications
Fahimeh Mehrabi Receives Committing Sociology Certificate
PhD candidate recognized for editorial service to The Canadian Review of Sociology
Very first newsletter, Decolonial Dispatches published by Sociologists for Palestine (S4P) features writing by our faculty members and graduate student
Decolonial Dispatches, the first issue of the S4P newsletter features essay by doctoral student, Rineem Saleh and The Conversation piece authored by Pallavi Banerjee, Pratim Sengupta and Yahya El Sahib
Paper on youth and care wins two prestigious paper awards
Anuneeta Chatterjee’s paper was awarded the Visionary Care Studies Paper Award by the Carework Network and the Honorable Mention of the Family, Aging, and Youth Division’s Student Paper Competition at the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)
New article in Frontiers in Climate by Riann Lognon, Chetna Khandelwal, Megha Sanyal, Santanu Dutta, Pallavi Banerjee, Pratim Sengupta
Anti-racist reorientations to land through gardening with newcomer youth of color
New Article on Chinatowns and Cultural Trauma Published in American Sociological Review
The article examines how the urban environment preserves traces of past events and makes them salient to contemporary communities
Doctoral candidate Jay Cavanagh recognized as a 2025 Killam Scholar
Jay Cavanagh’s research interrogates how clinical decision-making is shaped by knowledge, institutional culture and power